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2021-06-12 Fifth Column
Muslim activist running for office in Washington state previously boarded a school bus full of children and made a bomb threat
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An employee of Seattle, who has been called a "social justice warrior" and is now a progressive candidate for the King County Council threatened to blow up a school bus, then called middle school students cowards as they fled.

According to court documents obtained by The Post Millennial, Ubax Gardheere boarded the Highline School District bus on Jan. 12, 2010 as it travelled on its morning route. Once aboard the bus, which was heading to Chinook Middle School, Gardheere demanded the driver tell his dispatcher "that a national security incident was going on."

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Gardheere then began yelling at the children about America's relationship with Somalia, according to police reports. An audio recording of the incident demonstrated that when the driver told Gardheere to leave the bus she said, "You need to calm yourselves down 'cause I could have a bomb. Look how loose my clothes are."

Deputy Prosecutor Gretchen Holmgren said students were afraid for their safety and as students fled through the rear emergency exit of the bus, Gardheere began screaming that they were "cowards" for abandoning their classmates.

Holmgren wrote the court, "While speaking with the middle school students, the defendant stated that she might have a bomb and might have a gun. When students attempted to escape out the back of the bus, she called them cowards and told them they would be responsible if something happened to their classmates. Several students believed she had a weapon of some kind and many feared for their lives."

According to a detective with the King County, Gardheere told the arresting officer she was "prepared to die." However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
no weapons were found in her possession. She eventually pled the felony charges down to a gross medemeanor before trial.

Democrat State Senator Rebecca Saladana said in her endorsement of Gardheere, "I will follow Ubax anywhere." Former radical Seattle City Council Member and activist Mike O'Brien called Gardheere "An amazing leader." It is unclear if Saladana or O'Brien were aware of Gardheere's bomb threats against children on a school bus when they gave their endorsements.

Ghardeere's campaign has been boosted on social media by Riall Johnson and Prism Washington, both of which have a history of representing and promoting activist socialist candidates such as socialist Seattle City Council Member Tammy Morales, who advocated for riots during last summer's unrest.

Gardheere told the Seattle Weekly that she was hospitalized for mental illness and that her mental condition worsened after she stopped in Dubai to see in-laws on her way to visit Somalia in 2008.

Six years later, while working as a community organizer, Gardheere appeared in a video produced by Mass Transit now advocating for extending an area light rail project. She is referred to in the video as a "social justice advocate."

The Somalian immigrant is now the Equitable Development Division Director in the City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development earning over $130,000 a year. She calls herself a "bureactivist inside government."

In a recent interview with the South Seattle Emerald, Gardheere revised her own history and claimed that when she threatened school children with a bomb on a bus she was being criminalized for mental health issues.

"It means being a brand new mother and going through postpartum depression and then actually having a mental breakdown and being criminalized for that, instead of getting the mental health [support] that I needed."

This conflicts not only with the court documents and police reports of the incident but also with her own statements years earlier to The Seattle Weekly. "I’m thinking in my head, 'what can I say or do that will get you taken to jail instead of a mental institute?'"

In a recent endorsement video for the radical King County young Democrats, Gardheere omits her troubled past but references her work with children.

Last month Gardheere posted a video from an event that was held in Seattle which she appears to have attended, lamenting the failure of the attempted genocide of Jews in the Middle East.
Posted by Fred 2021-06-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ]  Top

#1 Ilhan Omar wannabe?
Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-12 04:09||   2021-06-12 04:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Funny, her campaign site doesn't mention that:
Currently, Ubax is the Equitable Development Division Director in the City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development. She currently oversees the Equitable Development Initiative (EDI) program, investing in community-based organizations working on anti-displacement strategies and economic development opportunities.

In the last five years, Ubax and her team directly moved over $35 million to Seattle’s most marginalized communities, and are poised to move another $16 million in 2021. At the same time, these communities have leveraged over $200 million in additional investments from other City departments and funders. The biggest success here is not the dollar amount, but how communities are shifting government and funder practices: away from a charity-based model that overlooks the inherent dignity and agency within communities, and towards a collaborative model that builds better together, in relationship.
Posted by Frank G 2021-06-12 07:31||   2021-06-12 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 "moved"
Posted by Frank G 2021-06-12 07:32||   2021-06-12 07:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Have we reached Peak Stupidity yet?

Why is this disgusting retard even IN this country -- let alone not in prison?

She has a $130k position in curt government and is running for higher office.

WTF is happening to this country?
Posted by Grater Flainter9312 2021-06-12 08:44||   2021-06-12 08:44|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ She's gong to win, so no. Seattle still has perhaps the only statue of Lenin left in the world. We've a loooooooooong way to go before reaching Peak Stupidity in the PNW
Posted by Rex Mundi 2021-06-12 14:26||   2021-06-12 14:26|| Front Page Top

#6 I agree Rex. And I live here just north of Seattle (but gladly not in King County).

So yes, we haven't reached peak stupid yet.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-06-12 14:34||   2021-06-12 14:34|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ stock market's getting close . . .
Posted by Sherert Sniper4864 2021-06-12 14:36||   2021-06-12 14:36|| Front Page Top

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